I am surprised they need fewer of them, instead of making something just as big and several times faster. I guess faster computers just aren't needed for render farms any more.
With 6000 cores, you could render the movie in real time (24 fps) if each core were allowed 4 minutes per frame.
Israel, one of the most right wing western countries has explicitly approved internet privacy, while France, one of the most left wing western countries, is actively trying to put the internet genies back in the bottle.
Actually, I don't see anything in your link about the French making a blanket ruling against Internet anonymity. The French law gives the govt the power to deem websites illegal and block them, and to wiretap computers with the equivalent of a warrant, even by using a trojan. Those might be bad things, but they're not incompatible with the Israeli ruling anyways.
Despite the ruling, if you think Israel isn't trying to track down Muslim extremists trying to conceal their identities on pro-terrorism websites, well, I'm skeptical.
Next up, "keep your governments hands off my medicare!!!"
The FDIC is the government, it is created by regulatory law and federally backed. Before federal regulation, you bet banks went under with all their deposits, and the fear of this happening was self-fulfilling in the frequent economic crises they experienced. Government backing is what allows banks to operate on a modern scale. (But don't remind bankers "earning" millions of dollars about that, it would destroy their self-image as self-made men and justify them paying taxes).
The late unpleasantness was caused by the market correctly pricing financial derivatives. The market always works.
I didn't "work," it imploded. Without government intervention, the banks would have gone out of business, and everybody would have lost their life's savings. Markets are not efficient nor even sustainable when their is either too much or too little regulation.
I would appreciate a convenient way to pay a small amount of money for quality investigative reporting.
We can sit around and carp about government corruption, and wait for the government to oversee itself better, but the real cure is sunlight - somebody indepdent looking over their shoulder, namely the press. We need to find a way to pay them to do more of that.
What are you referring to? In the US, it's about to get even "more free", they passed a law that banks can't slam customers with overdraft fees anymore; it will simply decline the charge instead (yay).
Although, I bank at a credit union where there was no fee anyways, they simply transfer the funds from checking (for free).
What can we not blow up with the 1,500 strategic warheads still permitted under the treaty!? This is mainly just going to save both of us a lot of money.
That 15% increase in space could easily lead to savings in ink being offset by additional paper waste.
I have a silly idea which is about to be thoroughly debunked, but here goes...
Maybe it would be better for the environment to put paper and cardboard in landfills? Using solar power to pull carbon from the air, sequestering it as a solid, and burying it - i.e. growing trees, making paper, and throwing it away - seems like the ideal way to replace the carbon pulled from the ground when we drill for oil. Maybe if we buried plant waste and paper properly, it would even turn back into oil in less than millions of years.
I agree, although for the sake of appearances, it would be cool if the finite state machine portion were hard-coded to implement a universal turing machine, and the only programmability was the starting contents of the tape.
The oddest historical hookup I remember how well Ford worked with pre WWII USSR they did all sorts of deals with Stalin and company. Which if you think about it should really make your head hurt.
Uh, why? We were allies. The US Government itself advanced the Soviets $11e9 through the lend-lease program.
Are you sure you don't mean Henry Ford's relations with Germany?
Ford and Adolf Hitler admired each other's achievements.[33] Adolf Hitler kept a life-size portrait of Ford next to his desk.[33] "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration," Hitler told a Detroit News reporter two years before becoming the Chancellor of Germany in 1933.[33] In July 1938, four months after the German annexation of Austria, Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal awarded by Nazi Germany to foreigners.[33] Ford disliked the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and did not approve of U.S. involvement in the war.
Well, what do you want, a conclusive, objective ruling on whether George Bush was a good president? look at his article, there is an incredible amount of factual information and citations there, with plenty of ammo for making either case. Now that is a good information source.
Global warming itself is an established fact, and very simple to measure. The oceans are rising, and almost(?) all glaciers are retreating. No specialized knowledge is required to observe that.
Now the question is whether people can change it, which is closely related to whether we caused it in the first place. I am satisfied that we did (at least satisfied enough to justify taking action, just as I take the time to buckle up even when I don't know I'll get in an accident). But admittedly there is less certainty about the "anthro" issue than the fact that the planet is warming.
"Buy land. They've stopped making it." -- Mark Twain.
Addendum: They're deleting it now too.
This is no joke. Much of the world's most valuable real estate is on the world's coastlines, which are now being eroded by global warming. We're talking trillions of dollars here. Who bears the cost? You perhaps? Governments around the world are spending a lot of money on sea walls, restoring beaches and buttressing cliffs.
I can see both sides, since beachfront property owners are no more personally responsible for global warming than anybody else is. However, since it is a slow process, I believe there should be a gradual (e.g. 10 year) transition from public to private liability. This will give global warming believers and doubters a chance to put their money where their mouth is by selling or shorting coastal real estate:)
I agree, ssl is really about facilitating secure communications between parties who don't really trust each other, like you and a bank, or you and an online store. Ultimately, that's a job only government can do, akin to (and derived from) contract enforcement, which is how trade among parties is facilitated when there are no tribal or other bonds. If the CA decided to sell you online identity to the highest bidder, what's your recourse? Sue them. So, ultimately the government is the arbiter. Ok then, ssl only helps in "certain" situations, but it's an extremely useful set of situations.
It is also entirely possible he's rejecting the award out of spite, to get back at society and mainstream mathematics for perceived wrongs in the past. What proves your superiority more than out-doing them all, then spurning even their congratulations and awards. Passive-aggressiveness at its best. That would still be no crime, but it's much different than simply not caring.
Without a law, real and personal property would still exist as such.
Huh? The notion of (physical) property is certainly a legal contrivance. Without law, you may have whatever you can make or take, until the next guy takes it from you, i.e. the law of the jungle.
"Don't dignify with a reading" = the definition of willful ignorance.
This could be as simple as watching all the text coming from an individual and getting suspicious when an "11 year old" types 90 wpm (based simply on time to respond and length of response). Would that be 100% accurate? Probably not (fire away with anecdotes about your niece), but it's entirely possible that the vast majority of kids cannot type that fast - such that it's worth collecting the data.
I am really curious how the Chinese people are reacting to this, but that BBC article doesn't do it for me. It just says some side with google, some against, but how could it be otherwise? Those who side with the government, I wonder why? Is it that they feel the blocked content is harmful and therefore should be blocked? Is it that they see google as an outsider which is out of place trying to change their government? Are they suspicious the whole thing is just a publicity stunt by google? Do they simply not know or care because most aren't on the Internet anyways and those who are mostly use baidu?
Not quite. A shop near my house (Rome, Italy) has 320GB drives on sale at 35.4 EUR (roughly $48) including 20% sales tax
$50 is a lot of money when you're talking about $100 netbooks! 40 GB is a fine amount of storage for such a computer and SSDs in that capacity will probably be 1 cm^2, soldered to the motherboard, and cost $15 within 2 years.
Take a look at the biggest Insurance industry recipients - the majority are DEMOCRATS. Who do you think paid for this bill?
Fuck, they WANTED a "everybody must buy" mandate.
What "they" really wanted, for the most part, was a single-payer system like so many other nations already have. Is that what you were hoping for too?
In other words, the system worked perfectly. Your life wasn't thrown into utter turmoil, you didn't have to short-sale your home or default on your mortgage, your family didn't go hungry, and you found a job before these limited-term unemployment benefits (that you've always paid into when you were working) expired.
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I am surprised they need fewer of them, instead of making something just as big and several times faster. I guess faster computers just aren't needed for render farms any more. With 6000 cores, you could render the movie in real time (24 fps) if each core were allowed 4 minutes per frame.
Actually, I don't see anything in your link about the French making a blanket ruling against Internet anonymity. The French law gives the govt the power to deem websites illegal and block them, and to wiretap computers with the equivalent of a warrant, even by using a trojan. Those might be bad things, but they're not incompatible with the Israeli ruling anyways.
Despite the ruling, if you think Israel isn't trying to track down Muslim extremists trying to conceal their identities on pro-terrorism websites, well, I'm skeptical.
The FDIC is the government, it is created by regulatory law and federally backed. Before federal regulation, you bet banks went under with all their deposits, and the fear of this happening was self-fulfilling in the frequent economic crises they experienced. Government backing is what allows banks to operate on a modern scale. (But don't remind bankers "earning" millions of dollars about that, it would destroy their self-image as self-made men and justify them paying taxes).
Westinghouse doesn't fab LCD panels do they?
I didn't "work," it imploded. Without government intervention, the banks would have gone out of business, and everybody would have lost their life's savings. Markets are not efficient nor even sustainable when their is either too much or too little regulation.
We can sit around and carp about government corruption, and wait for the government to oversee itself better, but the real cure is sunlight - somebody indepdent looking over their shoulder, namely the press. We need to find a way to pay them to do more of that.
Although, I bank at a credit union where there was no fee anyways, they simply transfer the funds from checking (for free).
What can we not blow up with the 1,500 strategic warheads still permitted under the treaty!? This is mainly just going to save both of us a lot of money.
I have a silly idea which is about to be thoroughly debunked, but here goes...
Maybe it would be better for the environment to put paper and cardboard in landfills? Using solar power to pull carbon from the air, sequestering it as a solid, and burying it - i.e. growing trees, making paper, and throwing it away - seems like the ideal way to replace the carbon pulled from the ground when we drill for oil. Maybe if we buried plant waste and paper properly, it would even turn back into oil in less than millions of years.
I agree, although for the sake of appearances, it would be cool if the finite state machine portion were hard-coded to implement a universal turing machine, and the only programmability was the starting contents of the tape.
Uh, why? We were allies. The US Government itself advanced the Soviets $11e9 through the lend-lease program.
Are you sure you don't mean Henry Ford's relations with Germany?
Well, what do you want, a conclusive, objective ruling on whether George Bush was a good president? look at his article, there is an incredible amount of factual information and citations there, with plenty of ammo for making either case. Now that is a good information source.
Now the question is whether people can change it, which is closely related to whether we caused it in the first place. I am satisfied that we did (at least satisfied enough to justify taking action, just as I take the time to buckle up even when I don't know I'll get in an accident). But admittedly there is less certainty about the "anthro" issue than the fact that the planet is warming.
This is no joke. Much of the world's most valuable real estate is on the world's coastlines, which are now being eroded by global warming. We're talking trillions of dollars here. Who bears the cost? You perhaps? Governments around the world are spending a lot of money on sea walls, restoring beaches and buttressing cliffs.
I can see both sides, since beachfront property owners are no more personally responsible for global warming than anybody else is. However, since it is a slow process, I believe there should be a gradual (e.g. 10 year) transition from public to private liability. This will give global warming believers and doubters a chance to put their money where their mouth is by selling or shorting coastal real estate :)
I agree, ssl is really about facilitating secure communications between parties who don't really trust each other, like you and a bank, or you and an online store. Ultimately, that's a job only government can do, akin to (and derived from) contract enforcement, which is how trade among parties is facilitated when there are no tribal or other bonds. If the CA decided to sell you online identity to the highest bidder, what's your recourse? Sue them. So, ultimately the government is the arbiter. Ok then, ssl only helps in "certain" situations, but it's an extremely useful set of situations.
It is also entirely possible he's rejecting the award out of spite, to get back at society and mainstream mathematics for perceived wrongs in the past. What proves your superiority more than out-doing them all, then spurning even their congratulations and awards. Passive-aggressiveness at its best. That would still be no crime, but it's much different than simply not caring.
Huh? The notion of (physical) property is certainly a legal contrivance. Without law, you may have whatever you can make or take, until the next guy takes it from you, i.e. the law of the jungle.
That's what it was 11 years ago when I interviewed there.
This could be as simple as watching all the text coming from an individual and getting suspicious when an "11 year old" types 90 wpm (based simply on time to respond and length of response). Would that be 100% accurate? Probably not (fire away with anecdotes about your niece), but it's entirely possible that the vast majority of kids cannot type that fast - such that it's worth collecting the data.
I am really curious how the Chinese people are reacting to this, but that BBC article doesn't do it for me. It just says some side with google, some against, but how could it be otherwise? Those who side with the government, I wonder why? Is it that they feel the blocked content is harmful and therefore should be blocked? Is it that they see google as an outsider which is out of place trying to change their government? Are they suspicious the whole thing is just a publicity stunt by google? Do they simply not know or care because most aren't on the Internet anyways and those who are mostly use baidu?
$50 is a lot of money when you're talking about $100 netbooks! 40 GB is a fine amount of storage for such a computer and SSDs in that capacity will probably be 1 cm^2, soldered to the motherboard, and cost $15 within 2 years.
So you're launching a magazine?
Actually it was Reagan who ushered in the modern era of deficit spending to stimulate the economy.
What "they" really wanted, for the most part, was a single-payer system like so many other nations already have. Is that what you were hoping for too?
And you're whining about it.